The Theory of Communicative Action and Truth and Justification read against the Relationship branch. The one claim the Institute carries against Habermas concerns coping with what resists (T&J p. 192 against pp. 78 and 154).

From the map. H: Communicative action coordinates purposes through criticizable validity claims against a lifeworld background (1:98–101); social inquiry reaches its object as a virtual participant (1:107–116); rationality is internal to sociology and universality is carried without metaphysical support (1:136–139). In Truth and Justification he states the relational thesis as Hegel's, fills it with three media, and subordinates labor to linguistic disclosure by preference (pp. 183, 192). DGH: The purple topics mark where we think Habermas’s reconstruction requires or permits a pre-propositional relation. We test this reading against TCA 2:16–18 and 2:35 and Truth and Justification, pp. 12, 30, 78, 154, 183, 192.

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